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Old 02-22-2007, 08:05 AM
 
Location: South Bay, California
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It's the amount of motorists on the road...people driving poorly may cut a couple seconds off your time..but the consistent traffic is the main reason for the congestion....trust me Los Angeles drivers' aren't that bad. Many are very good drivers, you should go to some other cities, where road rage is very common. Why are people driving so fast?! Because, everyone knows that traffic might be around the corner.
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Old 02-22-2007, 06:00 PM
 
Location: Sherman Oaks, CA
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To put the traffic in perspective, I know a guy in a cover band. The band plays in So-Cal and also in Vegas weekly. He also has a full time job here in L.A. They just found a new gig in San Diego that they play once in a while, and this guy can't make the drive from L.A. to San Diego on a week night in time to make the sound check! Yet he can fly to Vegas to perform there. It's a weird world we live in when it's easier for him to fly to Vegas for a show than it is to drive to a city less than 150 miles away! (By the way, on the nights when he can't play, they hire a substitute to fill in for him; it's an actual corporation employing hundreds of musicians).
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Old 02-24-2007, 08:01 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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No, when people see traffic, they have a tendency to slow down and think oh here's the traffic I'll just slow down to snail speed. It's been proven with studies.
In this case I would say, "The gas pedal is on the RIGHT!" LOL
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Old 02-27-2007, 11:30 PM
 
Location: South Bay
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The 405 from about Sunset Blvd south to LAX - hell on earth
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Old 02-28-2007, 01:04 AM
 
Location: Earth
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The 405 from about Sunset Blvd south to LAX - hell on earth
The 405/101 intersection is no picnic either - the place where LA's two worst freeways come together

Best freeways: the 2, the 90, the 170
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Old 02-28-2007, 08:28 AM
 
Location: South Bay
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I think some of the outlying communities of LA proper are more responsive to road repair and the like. here's an example of a current road project to relieve traffic in the South Bay:
http://www.southbaychat.com/south-ba...n-project.html
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Old 02-28-2007, 12:41 PM
 
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"..trust me Los Angeles drivers' aren't that bad. Many are very good drivers, you should go to some other cities, where road rage is very common."

..like Miami, Florida. I speak from experience.
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Old 03-01-2007, 07:26 AM
 
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Los Angeles has its weirdness, but it's got nothing on Miami. Addendum to Miami road rage comment:

We all know how sensitive law enforcement can be to civilians documenting police activities with a video camera. Along with Miami road rage (I-95 being Miami's 405-like version of asphalt hell), pizza/cafe joints (fronts protected by crooked cops for a cut of profits) selling cocaine along with slices & Cafe Cubano, dumping bodies in the 'glades', discarding sacrificed (Santaria) chicken parts on residential streets, never-ending list of corrupt politicians, tweaking tattooed teens making deals on cellphones in public schools, and gators in residential ponds preying on aquatic birds and your neighbors chihuahua, add this:

From todays Boing Boing:

Take a picture in Miami, go to jail

Miami police didn't want a photojournalist named Carlos Miller taking pictures of them, so they arrested him. Miller said that in the next instant, he was surrounded by the officers. One attempted to trip kick him to fall to the ground, but he was concerned about his expensive camera equipment, so he tried not to fall on his face. He heard one officer say “He’s resisting arrest!” Miller tried to explain he wasn’t, but he’d lost his negotiating leverage a few minutes back. He went down hard on one knee. The officers planted (Miller said slammed) his face into the concrete and twisted his wrists and arms behind him to the point of pain.
“They were treating me like I was uncontrollable, a meth addict or something,” he said. “I tried to explain, but one of them said, ‘If you don’t shut up, I’m going to tase you.’”
Miller, at last, shut up. http://www.boingboing.net/200702281859.jpg (broken link)

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Old 03-01-2007, 08:45 AM
 
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The 405 from about Sunset Blvd south to LAX - hell on earth
I had no problem driving in "hell" on May 1st, 2006 at 9:30 am.
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Old 03-01-2007, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Earth
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I had no problem driving in "hell" on May 1st, 2006 at 9:30 am.
Funny, the 10 west of Fairfax Ave. wasn't affected that day, nor were any of the surface streets west of La Brea....

OTOH it was easier to drive east of Highland that day....

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